It's easy for engineers to imagine that these types of things are the same as the mathematical equation required for coding. These tasks are more esoteric and require a sensitivity to process and inputs that can't be gleaned from a single information source.
If money is an issue I suggest mining the local college for design students.
You know what is interesting about this article and the article on slashdot concerning the VT shooting is the sheer ineptitude of your writing. This point of discussion put into the article is inflamatory at best and ignorant at worst.
I work at a company that specializes in educational technology. We have worked both with institutions that have a 1-1 program and some that don't. Some 1-1 programs work, some do not. It all depends on the holisitic attitude in which technology is integrated into the classroom. The success most definitely depends on how willing the school system is to open the educational process to the creative inclinations of the learner. The problem of an institution adopting 1-1 is that they are an institution. They have invested in processes and philosophies that either don't apply or become of differing priorities in a 1-1 situation.
So that you have an example of success we support a completely virtualized school system with over 9000 K-12 students that are full time enrolled and another 15000 part-time enrollements. This systems has been in place and running for the past 7 years. We recently completely revamped the LMS and CMS systems to great success. We provided more oversight for the educational institution and greater freedom for learners (teachers and students) inside the system. Their graduation ceremonies are so emotionally powerful and have such a great impact on the community they must rent an entire stadium of the largest university in the state to hold everyone. It serves those students that never survived the traditional system. Those students that are smart enough to get through school in short years, learn individually, or were not supported by their social peers.
So this is my goodbye to/.. I'm afraid I'm off to find another news feed for technology. Not because of the technology (i.e. laptops or software) but because of the bully platform your using it for. The 1-1 programs are revolutionizing education where the implementation is smart enough to support education and the community is creative enough to find it's opportunities and capitalize on them. Where they are not, we are learning lessons as well. NO amount of money is too small to spend on education. I can think of hundreds of millions of dollars wasted by our government. I sure hope they waste more of it on education, technology, and the betterment of our nation than some of the other initiatives we have lately.
The only reason the Teachers Union doesn't like this is because charter schools take students and therefore federal money from their schools. Students leave their schools because they are not succeeding. I've never seen an altruistic teachers union. If they are so concerned about the quality of education maybe they should spend some of their lobbying money on schools and teacher education.
I agree that Macromedia is a proprietary type of company. No-free-lunch is a great ideal, but practically impossible to enforce with philosophies such as the F/OSS movement. I mean I think it comes with the territory. I guess my point is that we can't really have our cake and eat it too. Either we open-source our code and allow the consequences to play themselves out or you remain proprietary.
It is hilarious to me that some proponents of the OSS revolution can be so bull headed. The second we get a little bit of wind under the sails we want to horde our code from some other entity using it simply because other parts of their products are proprietary!
I'm sure you have written code for some company that is proprietary. I know I have.
It seems to me that this comment smacks of proprietary attitudes. Information wants to be free and if it's used by Macromedia or in my back yard that's the nature of OSS!
I own a software development company. If one of my team members wanted to use GPL code we would discuss the business ramifications before. They know better...
Did you perform a task for your boss and not talk to him about the fact that your going to use GPL code to develop the solution? Every company these days is IP law afraid I'm sure they had even an inkling of Patent, or copy-right claims the GPL issue would have negated their use of the GPL source.
If you did, shame on you... If they agreed to GPL derivitive before hand then shame on them.
We have a similar issue. I kept posting to the Apple forums with no luck. Our installation is much smaller a single OS X Server installation to manage a small 15 person office. The Directory Services features work great but whenever I turn on DHCP after a couple of minutes all my windows computers quit pulling an address.
Frustrations galore....
J
No need to remind. This is well know whithin this community especially. This site simply gives good information on the structure of the file format. It is easier than delving down through the Macromedia site and trying to get access to their SDK and documentation.
Software however written is capable of running for as long as it is viable to the market. It's not an issue of hardware or interdependency between software sources. It's that our market and general theory of technology is destructive/creative in nature. We rebuild software not because it isn't capable of running for centuries but because the users of that software have been emboldened to think creatively about new applications.
Our clients could run the software they have for a long period of time. We build platforms that support 5-10 years of enhancement. But the market whether external or internal requires us to innovate rapidly. To create software that last centuries you would need to kill the creative process that is technology. The social process that defines us as humans.
I worked out of my house for a year and a half before I couldn't take it anymore. Acquired the most inexpensive office space I could find and found a huge turn around in the quality of life. It was worth it for me to have to do the regiment of actually traveling to work.
If you want to test out the theory then I suggest seeing if you can take up space at a friends office for a week.
Justin
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It's easy for engineers to imagine that these types of things are the same as the mathematical equation required for coding. These tasks are more esoteric and require a sensitivity to process and inputs that can't be gleaned from a single information source.
If money is an issue I suggest mining the local college for design students.
You know what is interesting about this article and the article on slashdot concerning the VT shooting is the sheer ineptitude of your writing. This point of discussion put into the article is inflamatory at best and ignorant at worst. I work at a company that specializes in educational technology. We have worked both with institutions that have a 1-1 program and some that don't. Some 1-1 programs work, some do not. It all depends on the holisitic attitude in which technology is integrated into the classroom. The success most definitely depends on how willing the school system is to open the educational process to the creative inclinations of the learner. The problem of an institution adopting 1-1 is that they are an institution. They have invested in processes and philosophies that either don't apply or become of differing priorities in a 1-1 situation. So that you have an example of success we support a completely virtualized school system with over 9000 K-12 students that are full time enrolled and another 15000 part-time enrollements. This systems has been in place and running for the past 7 years. We recently completely revamped the LMS and CMS systems to great success. We provided more oversight for the educational institution and greater freedom for learners (teachers and students) inside the system. Their graduation ceremonies are so emotionally powerful and have such a great impact on the community they must rent an entire stadium of the largest university in the state to hold everyone. It serves those students that never survived the traditional system. Those students that are smart enough to get through school in short years, learn individually, or were not supported by their social peers. So this is my goodbye to /.. I'm afraid I'm off to find another news feed for technology. Not because of the technology (i.e. laptops or software) but because of the bully platform your using it for. The 1-1 programs are revolutionizing education where the implementation is smart enough to support education and the community is creative enough to find it's opportunities and capitalize on them. Where they are not, we are learning lessons as well. NO amount of money is too small to spend on education. I can think of hundreds of millions of dollars wasted by our government. I sure hope they waste more of it on education, technology, and the betterment of our nation than some of the other initiatives we have lately.
The only reason the Teachers Union doesn't like this is because charter schools take students and therefore federal money from their schools. Students leave their schools because they are not succeeding. I've never seen an altruistic teachers union. If they are so concerned about the quality of education maybe they should spend some of their lobbying money on schools and teacher education.
Well to fly in the face of everything:
/. hmmm. makes me wonder
I'm at work on labor day.
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I agree that Macromedia is a proprietary type of company. No-free-lunch is a great ideal, but practically impossible to enforce with philosophies such as the F/OSS movement. I mean I think it comes with the territory. I guess my point is that we can't really have our cake and eat it too. Either we open-source our code and allow the consequences to play themselves out or you remain proprietary.
It is hilarious to me that some proponents of the OSS revolution can be so bull headed. The second we get a little bit of wind under the sails we want to horde our code from some other entity using it simply because other parts of their products are proprietary!
I'm sure you have written code for some company that is proprietary. I know I have.
It seems to me that this comment smacks of proprietary attitudes. Information wants to be free and if it's used by Macromedia or in my back yard that's the nature of OSS!
hmmm My Granny uses OSX and so do I.
I know it's not a true *nix distro but sure does feel like it when I want it too.
I'd accept any DRM that I can hack ...
I own a software development company. If one of my team members wanted to use GPL code we would discuss the business ramifications before. They know better... Did you perform a task for your boss and not talk to him about the fact that your going to use GPL code to develop the solution? Every company these days is IP law afraid I'm sure they had even an inkling of Patent, or copy-right claims the GPL issue would have negated their use of the GPL source. If you did, shame on you... If they agreed to GPL derivitive before hand then shame on them.
We have a similar issue. I kept posting to the Apple forums with no luck. Our installation is much smaller a single OS X Server installation to manage a small 15 person office. The Directory Services features work great but whenever I turn on DHCP after a couple of minutes all my windows computers quit pulling an address. Frustrations galore.... J
No need to remind. This is well know whithin this community especially. This site simply gives good information on the structure of the file format. It is easier than delving down through the Macromedia site and trying to get access to their SDK and documentation.
Need I remind... SWF is an open document format. http://www.openswf.org
Software however written is capable of running for as long as it is viable to the market. It's not an issue of hardware or interdependency between software sources. It's that our market and general theory of technology is destructive/creative in nature. We rebuild software not because it isn't capable of running for centuries but because the users of that software have been emboldened to think creatively about new applications. Our clients could run the software they have for a long period of time. We build platforms that support 5-10 years of enhancement. But the market whether external or internal requires us to innovate rapidly. To create software that last centuries you would need to kill the creative process that is technology. The social process that defines us as humans.
I worked out of my house for a year and a half before I couldn't take it anymore. Acquired the most inexpensive office space I could find and found a huge turn around in the quality of life. It was worth it for me to have to do the regiment of actually traveling to work. If you want to test out the theory then I suggest seeing if you can take up space at a friends office for a week. Justin